Jarreth Merz, a Swiss-Ghanaian filmmaker, came to Ghana in 2008 to film the national elections. What he saw there taught him new lessons about democracy -- and about himself.

In Agbogbloshie, a community in Accra, Ghana, people descend on a scrapyard to mine electronic waste for recyclable materials. Without formal training, these urban miners often teach themselves the workings of electronics by taking them apart and putting them together again. Designer and TED Fellow DK Osseo-Asare wondered: What would happen if w...

Journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas has broken dozens of stories of corruption and organized crime all over Ghana -- without ever revealing his identity. In this talk (in which his face remains hidden) Anas shows grisly footage from some of his investigations and demonstrates the importance of facing injustice.

A liberal arts education is critical to forming true leaders, says university head Patrick Awuah -- because it builds decision-making skills, an ethical framework and a broad vision. Awuah himself left a career at Microsoft in the US to found a liberal arts school in Africa: Ashesi University, in his home nation of Ghana. A passionate talk about...

Anas Aremeyaw Anas is a Ghanaian undercover journalist and private eye who gathers hard evidence of crime and corruption, putting the perpetrators behind bars.

Before he hit eighteen, Fred Swaniker had lived in Ghana, Gambia, Botswana and Zimbabwe. What he learned from a childhood across Africa was that while good leaders can't make much of a difference in societies with strong institutions, in countries with weak structures, leaders could make or break a country. In a passionate talk the entrepreneur ...

About this video: In Africa, 40% of the female population does not have access to basic education. In this film, Angela K. Jimoh, IBM’s first female Country General Manager in Africa, explains why this issue exists and tells the story of Akua, a young girl whose mother was determined her daughter get an education. To help support girls’ access t...

Jarreth Merz' new film, "An African Election," follows the 2008 presidential elections in Ghana from start to finish.

DK Osseo-Asare creates architecture with and for the people that design overlooks.

Anas Aremeyaw Anas is known for, as he calls it, the “naming, shaming and jailing” of criminals all over Ghana – yet few people would be able to pick him out of a crowd. The undercover journalist, who gave today’s talk, has brought smugglers, mob bosses and pimps to justice with an unshakeable determination to, in his words, “shine light in ...

After working at Microsoft for almost a decade, Patrick Awuah returned home to Ghana and cofounded Ashesi University, a small liberal arts college that aims to educate Africa's next generation of leaders. Its first class of students graduated in 2006.

In her writings, Taiye Selasi explores our relationship to our multiple identities.

Their ideas are big — aimed at impacting millions of lives or creating sweeping global change. Three months after the first project leaders of The Audacious Project stood on the TED stage and shared their ambitious plans, things are already starting to happen. Below, enjoy the latest news. The drive to end trachoma When Sightsavers and its...

Originally from New Orleans, Louisiana, Sunni Patterson combines the heritage, culture, and traditions of her native town with a spiritual worldview to create powerful music and poetry.

After a visit to a European library in search of Arabic and Middle Eastern texts turned up only titles about fear, terrorism and destruction, Ghada Wali resolved to represent her culture in a fun, accessible way. The result: a colorful, engaging project that uses LEGO to teach Arabic script, harnessing the power of graphic design to create conne...

Sangu Delle is an entrepreneur and clean water activist. A TED Fellow who hails from Ghana, he sees incredible potential in the African economy.

In 2013, international migrants sent $413 billion home to families and friends -- a huge sum compared to the $135 billion sent in foreign aid the same year. Yet the promise of this money, known as remittances, is stifled by a big problem that no one seems to be worried about. Economist Dilip Ratha discusses the issue in today's TED Talk (The hi...

Ashraf Ghani's passionate and powerful 10-minute talk, emphasizing the necessity of both economic investment and design ingenuity to rebuild broken states, is followed by a conversation with TED curator Chris Anderson on the future of Afghanistan.

About this event: TEDxTudu will be sharing inspirations from diverse areas of thoughts. Inspirations from Tudu and Ghana in general. Year of Return is a significant moment in Ghana and Africa in a whole. More exciting ideas on how the continent is going to develop will be shared at TEDxTudu.

Ashraf Ghani, Afghanistan’s new president-elect, and his opponent, Abdullah Abdullah, will share power in a national unity government. He previously served as Finance Minister and as a chancellor of Kabul University.

About this event: TEDxUofG Organizers are webcasting live the TED 2011 Conference.Patrick Awuah of Ashesi will speak @ the same venue(American Corner,LECIAD,University of Ghana)

About this event: The TEDx event in Osu, Accra, where we together envision Ghana in the next 10 years, with a focus on areas such as Women's Rights & Creative Arts, Technology & Social Change, and Education & Enterprise.

Media pioneer Pat Mitchell hosts Session 8: Embracing Otherness: "I suspect all of us have at one point or another have been the other." Photo: James Duncan Davidson / TED Actor Thandie Newton: "The key to my success as an actor is the very lack of self that used to make me feel so anxious and insecure." Photo: James Duncan Davidson /...

Anas Aremeyaw Anas can't show you his face, but his name carries enough weight. Famous in Ghana for his investigative journalism, Anas' stories like "Enemies of the nation," about corruption at customs in the Port of Tema, have blown the cover on crime all over Africa. He started 14 years ago, when he had just come out of college. He rece...

About this event: TEDxChange 2013 is a TEDx event co-organized by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and TED. Convened by Melinda French Gates and hosted by Chris Anderson, TEDxChange will focus on issues surrounding global health and development. TEDxChange type events are TEDx events hosted around the live webcast of TEDxChange, and also feature dynamic lo...

About this event: TEDxUofGWomen will bring together leading women and men in Ghana who are making marked contributions to improving the condition of women to share their stories,ideas and views on where we have come from to where we are to where we are going.It is a platform for sharing experiences and ideas to create change. TEDxUofGWomen which is being organ...

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